"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know" (Groucho Marx); este tentou mas não foi muito longe - banda sonora recomendada

"One has to know where a song should go and how to develop a story, and for the two artists to have unity. I never thought I could share the songwriting process because I'm such a private writer. It's very intimate. I close the curtains, I lock the door. The thought of anyone hearing me terrifies me which I know sounds strange because I sing in front of people every night. To share that moment with someone is very special. To work with Marianne [Faithfull} in her apartment in Paris, in bright sunlight, was really amazing. We wrote the song in 20 minutes – it was incredibly productive! I remember her speaking the lyrics of her songs and I listened to her voice thinking, 'God, she could make a shopping list sound incredible'" (Anna Calvi)

"One Monday in May, I was setting off from Washington to Colorado Springs, home of the United States Air Force Academy. I had kindly been invited by the academy’s 'freethinkers association', a loose-knit group of cadets and instructors who are without religious affiliation. As I was making ready to depart, and checking my e-mail, I found I had been sent a near-incredible video clip from the Al Jazeera network. It had been shot at Bagram Air Force Base last year, and it showed a borderline-hysterical address by one Lieutenant Colonel Gary Hensley, chief of the United States’ military chaplains in Afghanistan. He was telling his evangelical audience, all of them wearing uniforms supplied by the taxpayer, that as followers of Jesus Christ they had a collective responsibility 'to be witnesses for him', Heating up this theme, Lieutenant Colonel Hensley went on: 'The Special Forces guys, they hunt men, basically. We do the same things, as Christians. We hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down. Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them in the kingdom. Right? That’s what we do, that’s our business' (...)" (In Defense of Foxhole Atheists - Christopher Hitchens)